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Installing PHP 5.3.x on Centos 5.5

Jan 7th, 2011

Centos is a great Distro for hosting. Its tried and tested, as oppossed to Fedora and Ubuntu, which, while on the cutting edge, can still have a few quirks. My biggest problem with Centos is that lack for cutting edge, like the default PHP that installs with Centos, 5.1. It can be a pain to find 3rd party repos.

Well hopefully thats where you are. Looking for 5.3 on Centos. One of the most solid repos out there is . I’ll run through how to get that version of php you want on your server.

This assumes you have no php installed at this point. If you do, back up and remove it. Once you are ready: